Here is a good example of precisely how absurd it is to debate these things. In the novel, Dracula can move around in daylight (although he is weaker) and is ultimately killed by being stabbed through the heart with a Bowie knife. And that's from the man himself Bram Stoker.

So while we geeks will continue to debate these things because it's what we do--it's how we roll--we shouldn't get bogged down in these details. Just sit back and enjoy a good story. Remember, until the inevitable zombie apocalypse actually occurs, we don't know what they're gonna do.

But the debate is half the fun. I can debate and still enjoy both kind of movies as long they are well made.

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RFLMAO, besides getting bit what bodily fluids do you plan on sharing with a zombie?

OK, I'll give you splash effect from taking one down but past that? C'MON!!!

PD - I'd be interested in hearing the expert's case on how this virus would infect quicker than a more conventional one especially since it needs a very visible and painful physical contact. Heck, AIDs is less visible, has a less painful/destructive mode of transmission and was never a threat to humanity. Note that its growth has pretty much stabilized.

I'm loving this series...it's the only thing I make an effort to watch these days... but a zombie situation always seemed to me to be just a waiting game....once they all rot enough there'll not be any muscle holding the bones together and they'd all eventually just fall apart......just get some supplies and hold up somewhere safe for a month or two....

I was wondering why the main character isn't asking any questions ??? How did this happen ? When did this happen ? How long did it take ? Is the infection airborne, waterborne ? Is it local, state, regional, country wide outbreak ? Did this happen in other countries ? Do they not have gun stores in the south ? Everyone trying to get the bag of guns he left behind, I would be hitting every gun store I came across.

I was wondering why the main character isn't asking any questions ??? How did this happen ? When did this happen ? How long did it take ? Is the infection airborne, waterborne ? Is it local, state, regional, country wide outbreak ? Did this happen in other countries ? Do they not have gun stores in the south ? Everyone trying to get the bag of guns he left behind, I would be hitting every gun store I came across.

Just a couple of thoughts

The whole "Hit every gun store"-thing has been plenty discussed before, how many gun stores do you think there are, and how many people have the same exact idea, and how many people will be so nice and just take one firearm from the store and how many people would be willing to commit violence to get as much as they can in such a situation. Gunstores/Survival/Hunting-Stores would be the first to be completly looted. So a full bag of guns and ammo are pretty sought after.

As to why he doesn't ask more questions, I'd assume it was explained to him off-screen, since it really isn't a story about the zombie outbreak and more of the aftermath and the interaction between the characters.

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Well I do not know about Germany - but here in the american west, there are places to purchase guns everywhere, I live in a town of 80.000 and I can think of at least 15 places with in a three mile area (Gun stores, pawn shops, big main store as Walmart, Fred Meyer, Bi Mart, two different big sporting goods stores, ect.) besides the city police, county sherrif's and state police offices and the army national guard armory just up the road. There are a lot of places to get your hands on some weapons and ammo.
If I was running from zombies - I would like to know if I could get away from them in a non affected area.

Yep, the big cities might have a tough time of it. You know reading rights and trying to arrest the zombies. The rest of America would pretty much handle it. I just chuckle at the articles about infection and taking over the world.

This really is a good show. They're really taking this in some interesting new directions that stray from the comic. I like the changes, though. It's nice to be surprised since I've read several issues of the comic.

The Walking Dead has gotten terrific ratings for AMC and a quick renewal, as it heads into its season finale this weekend. But now comes word of a curious overhaul behind the scenes.

Deadline is reporting that executive producer Frank Darabont has let go of the show's entire writing staff, including his number 2, Charles H. Eglee (Dexter, The Shield). As Deadline notes, many shows have some writer changes in-between seasons, but it's unusual for such a major overhaul.

In addition, Deadline says they hear Darabont wants to go forward into Season 2 without a set writing staff, instead assigning all scripts he doesn't write himself to freelancers. Deadline points out that Darabont fully wrote two episodes of the first season (and co-wrote or re-wrote the others) and that two of the others were written by non-staff writers, including Walking Dead comic book creator Robert Kirkman. They also note that Darabont would be using the same model employed by Torchwood, which has several writers working on episodes for the upcoming re-launch on Starz (including Buffy's Jane Espenson), but no full time writing staff.

One hurdle for Darabont to do this however may come in the form of the Writer's Guild. Torchwood -- which just added another Buffy alum, Kelly Manners, as a producer -- is coproduced by the BBC, who got the okay from the Writer's Guild to continue with their UK template.

I didn't catch what type heavy weapon was in that emplacement, but I think they're dealing with what is in stock/at the armourer's disposal. That Chieftain put in another apppearance, as a matter of fact I saw it again when I re-watched Zombieland last weekend. Machineguns and submachineguns are regularly modified to look like something else so often, that demand may outstrip the time to get the proper "vismod" in place. How many times have directors or their assistants told weapons advisors "I don't care, just give them a big machinegun..", when the putting in the right piece would have delayed some precious shooting schedule?

Not saying much to avoid a spoiler, but while some wiggle room is fine in scifi/horror, the final season episode finale seems like it ignores the laws of physics a bit too much. They should avoid that, as they've done some fine work on setting up the human interactions and responses.

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